A major historical biography of George C. Marshall—the general who ran the U.S. campaign during the Second World War, the Secretary of State who oversaw the successful rebuilding of post-war Europe, and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize—and the first to offer a complete picture of his life.While Eisenhower Patton,...

Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust's...

Author: R. D. Rosen

Publisher: Harper; First Edition...

The story of the generation of hidden child survivors told through the true experiences of three Jewish girls—from Poland, Holland, and France—who transcended their traumatic childhoods to lead remarkable lives in America.Only one in ten Jewish children in Europe survived the Holocaust, many in hiding. In Such Good...

Tell Me Everything You Don't...

Author: Christine Hyung-Oak Lee

Publisher: Ecco

A memoir of reinvention after a stroke at thirty-three, based on the author's viral Buzzfeed essayChristine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on New Year's Eve 2006. By that afternoon, she saw the world - quite literally - upside down. By New Year's Day, she was unable to form a coherent sentence. And after...

American Saint: The Life of Elizabeth...

Author: Joan Barthel

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books

In this riveting biography of Elizabeth Seton critically acclaimed and bestselling author Joan Barthel tells the mesmerizing story of a woman whose life featured wealth and poverty, passion and sorrow, love and loss. Elizabeth was born into a prominent New York City family in 1774. Her father was the chief health officer...

Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death...

Author: Amanda Vaill

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

A spellbinding story of love amid the devastation of the Spanish Civil War

Madrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe -- a conflict one writer will call "the decisive thing of the century" -- six people meet and find their lives changed forever....

American General: The Life and Times...

Author: John S.D. Eisenhower

Publisher: NAL Hardcover

From respected historian John S. D. Eisenhower comes a surprising portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War general whose path of destruction cut the Confederacy in two, broke the will of the Southern population, and earned him a place in history as "the first modern general." Yet behind his reputation...

Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS,...

Author: Ben Macintyre

Publisher: Crown

The incredible untold story of WWII's greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern master of wartime intrigue

Britain's Special Air Service - or SAS - was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristocrat whose aimlessness in early life belied a remarkable strategic mind. Where...

Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate...

Author: Julia Baird

Publisher: Random House

This page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen - a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience.

"Victoria the Queen,...

Adventures of a Female Medical...

Author: Mary E Guinan

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University...

In 1974, a young doctor arrived at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with one goal in mind: to help eradicate smallpox. The only woman physician in her class in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a two-year epidemiology training program, Mary Guinan soon was selected to join India's Smallpox Eradication...

Down City: A Daughter's Story...

Author: Leah Carroll

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Like James Ellroy's, My Dark Places, DOWN CITY is a gripping narrative built of memory and reportage, and Leah Carroll's portrait of Rhode Island is sure to take a place next Mary Karr's portrayal of her childhood in East Texas and David Simon's gritty Baltimore.

Leah Carroll's mother, a gifted amateur photographer,...

Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life,...

Author: Jennifer Weiner

Publisher: Atria Books

"I'm mad Jennifer Weiner's first book of essays is as wonderful as her fiction. You will love this book and wish she was your friend." - Mindy Kaling, author of Why Not Me?

"A fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave book. I was spellbound from the first page to the last."...

Sally Ride: America's First...

Author: Lynn Sherr

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

The definitive biography of Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, with exclusive insights from Ride's family and partner, by the ABC reporter who covered NASA during its transformation from a test-pilot boys' club to a more inclusive elite.

Sally Ride made history as the first American woman in space. A member...

Foreign Correspondent: A Memoir

Author: H.D.S. Greenway

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

David Greenway, a journalist’s journalist in the tradition of Michael Herr, David Halberstam, and Dexter Filkins. In this vivid memoir, he tells us what it’s like to report a war up close.Reporter David Greenway was at the White House the day Kennedy was assassinated. He was in the jungles of Vietnam in that...

All Over the Place: Adventures...

Author: Geraldine DeRuiter

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Most travel memoirs involve a button-nosed protagonist nursing a broken heart who, rather than tearfully watching The Princess Bride while eating an entire 5-gallon vat of ice cream directly out of the container (like a normal person) , instead decides to travel the world, inevitably falling for some chiseled stranger...

Orwell's Nose: A Pathological...

Author: John Sutherland

Publisher: Reaktion Books

In 2012 writer John Sutherland permanently lost his sense of smell. At about the same time, he embarked on a rereading of George Orwell and - still coping with his recent disability - noticed something peculiar: Orwell was positively obsessed with smell. In this original, irreverent biography, Sutherland offers a fresh...